Mouse

Sensors, weight, polling, and click feel, tested on what changes in a real hand rather than on the box.

A gaming mouse firing a dense stream of signal pulses into a six-core CPU die, with one core glowing hot and a spiking frame-time waveform below

Mouse polling at 8,000Hz eats 10 percent of a Ryzen 5600X

8,000Hz mouse polling costs 5 to 10 percent CPU on a Ryzen 5 5600X. Get the CPU-generation cutoff and a repeatable frame-time test you can run.

Matte black Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse on a cloth mousepad beside its wireless dongle and a coiled USB-C cable

49 grams and 180 hours of battery in the Viper V4 Pro

Razer Viper V4 Pro battery life is 180 hours at 1,000Hz and 44 hours at 8,000Hz. The 49-gram shell adds no creak. Here is what the weight cut cost.

Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike gaming mouse sitting on a desk mat beside a keyboard, with a fingertip resting on its left button

Superstrike buttons need power to feel like buttons

Superstrike unpowered buttons give no click at all. A graceful degradation test, run across the 2026 flagship mice, with a pass or fail per device.

White Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike mouse on a dark mousepad with a finger pressing the black left button and cyan ripples spreading beneath it

The G Pro X2 Superstrike has no click switch inside

The Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike haptic click uses no switches. It deletes the double-click failure that kills most mice and adds an untested one.